Pardon Power

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“We pardon to the extent that we love.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“... liberal intellectuals ... tend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping that those in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the “establishment.””
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)